Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
CHARLES DARWINWhat a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.
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Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.
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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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